7 months ago

7 months ago

Week 4 Blogpoll

Motility.UConn moved up one spot to #2 by virtue of their big OT win in Washington state last weekend. Duke (+5) and Georgetown (+5) were the beneficiaries of losses to Texas (-5) , Xavier (-7) and Gonzaga as well. Purdue (+7), Michigan St. (+6) and Clemson (+5) were also high risers. Louisville’s loss to Minnesota damn near dropped them out of the poll (-13). Two Big Ten teams, Michigan and Minnesota, were this week’s new additions.

Variance. Wake Forest is this week’s winner with a range of #6 to #20, as there are still some questions about the validity of the Deacs’ 11-0 record. Xavier, Missouri, Baylor and Syracuse all have a pretty high degree of uncertainty from the pollsters.

8 responses to “Week 4 Blogpoll”

Are you joking you have 9-2 Xavier still ranked in your Top 15. Yet 10-1 Butler who has played a similar if not better schedule and smacked them in Cincinnati is not even ranked. Nice work, do you even watch basketball ?

Scott–
Butler’s win over Xavier came after the Blogpoll was tabulated so that game didn’t factor into the rankings. At the time the rankings were done, Butler was 9-1 (loss to an underrated Ohio State team) with 2 decent, but not great wins against Cleveland State and Northwestern. Xavier was 9-1 (loss to a very highly ranked Duke team) with a good win against Cincy and a “great” win against an overrated Memphis team. I’m pretty sure when the next Blogpoll comes out Butler will be ranked and probably be above Xavier.